Moonlight and Mirrors in The Night

The Moon-mirror By PJ 2011

According to ancient western superstitions during the full moon It was thought that to sleep in direct moonlight caused madness or blindness. In time, the word, lunatic, from "luna", meaning Moon, and "tic", meaning struck, evolved from this belief. 

A well popularized Moon mythology of Europe is of the werewolf the shape-shifts into a wolf, at the appearance of the full Moon. Lesser known variant of the same mythology is that in the light of the full Moon it was said that a woman that lay in moonlight or who stare as the full Moon would become pregnant and give birth to a monster, possible even a werewolf that shape-shifts at the night of the full Moon.

The Moon was thought to be important to bring potency to the healing and magic powers of herbs were said to be at the peak during the night of the full Moon, this one probably has more credence than one would think, knowing that the night cycle of plants cause them to change how they flow water and nutrition's from the roots, and also cause the osmotic pressure that gives the plant fresh morning-dew when observed in the morning. Though they would do this at any night the extra pull of the full Moon should make them more potent, and also for practical reasons it is a lot easier to collect herbs during the light of a full moon than on a night of only starlight. This is also probably part of the stories of how the witches were traveling using their broomsticks during the night of the full Moon, out to collect all the magical and medicinal herbs.

One other interesting legend I came over is a twist on the bad luck caused by the breaking of a mirror which, we commonly know is supposed to mean 7 years of bad luck, but what I had not heard about before was you could break this curse if you take the mirror pieces outside and bury them in moonlight.

The Moonlight and Mirrors in Samoan Folklore

I found out that is a widespread practice among Samoans to cover the mirrors at night, and if one does not do so, they think there might be someone else other then yourself starring back at you. 

To put it in the words of Loa from Samoa. 

-"cover the mirrors at night as Nek Minnit Miku is said to be staring at you"- 

When it comes to the Moon, and moonlight, The Samoan mythology is deeply connected to The Moon, and I heard multiple accounts how one is not supposed to sleep with moonlight falling on ones face. Also how those that would let that happen would find themselves paralyzed unable to move or let anyone know as they can't speak, yell or force themselves to wake up. Which is why it is very important to not only cover your mirrors but also cover up the windows so the moonlight cannot cause you to become frozen in the night. 

In the words of Loa from Samoa about the topic of moonlight

-Yea that moonlight one is scary. Happened to my mum and sisters. And in New Zealand too.. Its called '' malu 'ia '' they said they couldn't move and like they were screaming but they couldn't hear themselves.. So ever since that i made sure my curtain is always closed!-

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His Mother In the Mirror

My brother-in-law and I were always kind of close and, one day he told me this story. At first I just thought he was grieving in his own way but then one day I caught a quick glimpse of what he was talking about.

My brother-in-law came from a large family. He basically took care of his mother and the other kids once his father became old and, he did a very good job at it.

His mom passed on when she was 84 years old and up until the very end she was very active and and of sound mind. I knew his mother and she was a very sweet lady. I never saw my brother-in-law grieve. One night while he and I were driving down the road he told me his story.

He told me that sometimes when he walks past the mirror in the up stairs hallway, His mother appears to him in the mirror. As i stated in the beginning of this article, I simply thought it was his way of grieving over the loss of his mother. I listened to his story and I told him it was all because he missed her and, that in time he wouldn't see her in the mirror.

Then one afternoon I was at his house and I went upstairs to use the bathroom.
I was not even thinking about what he told me a month earlier but, when I came out of the bathroom and walked back down the hallway to the stairs, I passed the mirror and I saw his mother for just maybe two seconds in the mirror and then she just faded away. I didn't say anything to him about it but, about an hour later his sister came home and went up stairs and we heard her scream. he and I ran up the stairs just in time to see his mother smile and then fade away into the mirror again.

He hugged his sister and told her not to be upset because it was just mom making sure we are all OK. The three of us talked about it for a while and then it was never brought up again except for once in a while he would smile and just say. I saw Mom today.

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